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David James Di Pardo

Day 9: Rugelach The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies If you’ve never had rugelach, they’re a Jewish cookies/pastry; rolled into a croissant shape and stuffed with jam, nuts and raisins. Typically made with apricot jam, however you can really use any jam you’d like. Personally, I like to use peach jam that I make…

Day 8: Soft Glazed Gingerbread The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies I’ve been making these gingerbread cookies since 2008, before going vegan naturally, but over the past few years I’ve repeatedly tweaked the recipe to get it just right without the eggs and dairy. I started with egg replacers, my go to when adjusting…

Day 7: Holiday Nog Cookies The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies If you’re arriving late to the party, Holiday Nog is the plant based version of Eggnog, and I absolutely love it. I start my fix of Holiday Nog about mid way through November as I put up the Christmas Tree and start the…

Day 6: Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies How could you not love these? They have candy canes baked right in. What could be more Christmas-y than that? Now I know not everyone is a fan of the chocolate-mint combo. Seems to be somewhat of a hit or miss with folks,…

Day 5: Cherry Almond Drop Cookies The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies Ok, I have to level with you. There is nothing particularly Christmas-y about these Cherry Almond Drop Cookies. Other than the fact that I make them every year for Christmas. I absolutely adore them. They have a rich almond flavor reminiscent of…

Day 4: Gingerbread Biscotti The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies Come December there is no shortage of gingerbread in my house. There’s gingerbread biscotti, cookies (both hard and soft), donuts, and smoothies. And if that wasn’t enough there are gingerbread candles wafting their sweet spicy scent through the air if there happens to be…

Day 3: Snickerdoodles The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies I love these Snickerdoodles. Clearly I have an obsession with multiple types of Christmas cookies. Warm from the oven, still soft, and cinnamon wafting through the air… mmmm… heaven! While Santa would probably like any of the cookies on your platter, I feel like the…

Day 2: Fruitcake Squares The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies I can’t even begin to tell you how many fruitcake haters I’ve converted with these fruitcake squares. If your idea of fruitcake is a heavy store bought loaf studded with green and red dyed maraschino cherries, then think again. This cake is studded with…

Day 1: Holiday Biscotti The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies Every year I start the holiday baking with the Biscotti recipes. Biscotti, which means twice baked cookie. The reason for this is that these cookies are the sturdiest of the bunch, and without eggs of dairy in them they’ll keep just fine until the…

Every year, my kitchen turns out hundreds of Christmas Cookies during the month of December. And every year I say I’m going to blog about them, and every year I don’t. So this year, for the first time ever I’ve created a new blog series called The 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Cookies. No partridges…